He that is a good man is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.

SOUTH.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

CONFUCIUS.

If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face and you'll forget them all.

Each in the other made complete.

РОРЕ.

J. S. B. MONsell.

Incorruption maketh us near unto God.

Wisdom, vi. 19.

The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.

February 24.

Cowper.

Life, I repeat, is energy of love,
Divine or human exercised in pain,
In strife, and tribulation; and ordained,
If so approved and sanctified, to pass,
Through shades and silent rest, to endless joy.
WORDWORTH: Excursion.

More than married, for they are most intimately united, and when one suffers the other sympathises. CHESTERFIELD.

Care Thou for mine, whom I must leave behind,
Care that they know who 'tis for them takes care;
Thy present patience help them still to bear.
Lord, keep them cleaving, growing, heart and mind
In one, Thy Oneness us together bind.

Diary of an Old Soul: GEO. MACDONALD.

February 24.

Whatever he did was done with so much ease,
In him alone 'twas natural to please.

DRYDEN.

I exhort you to persevere in a thorough determination to do whatever you have to do as well as you can do it.

CHARLES DICKENS. Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

WILLIAM PENN.

A noble man is by a well-dropt word
Of women wisely led.

Wisdom of Goethe: PROFESSOR BLACKIE.

I do not think, where'er thou art,
Thou hast forgotten me;

And I, perhaps, may soothe this heart

In thinking, too, of thee.

CHARLES WOLFE.

Happy Pilgrim ! who hath a home in Heaven.

February 26.

THOMAS A KEMPIS.

The man who melts

With social sympathy, though not allied,
Is of more worth than a thousand kinsmen.

EURIPIDES.

If we would put down sin, let us put it down in ourselves first.

Ecce Homo.

Though I were doomed to wander on
Beyond the sea, beyond the sun,
Till my last weary sand was run,
Till then-and then I love thee.

ROBERT BURNS.

Sanctify the marriage rite
To both their soul's salvation.

The wisest will is God's own will,
Rest on this anchor and be still;
For peace around thy path shall flow,
When only wishing here below

What pleases God.

SOUTHEY.

PAUL GERHARDT.

February 26.

Never shrink from doing anything which your business calls you to. The man who is above his business may one day find his business above him. SAMUEL DREW.

She comprehends her trust, and to the same
Keeps faithful, with a singleness of aim.

For thee I only wish to live,

For thee I wish to die.

WORDSWORTH.

PERCY'S Reliques.

'Tis hard to part when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear;

Then steal away, give little warning,

Choose thine own time, say not 'Good night,' But in some brighter clime bid me

February 28.

Good morning.'

MRS. BARBAULD.

None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith. MATTHEW HENRY.

Thou art pure and guileless, so shall thy realities of life Be sweetened, and tempered, and gladdened by the wholesome spirit of romance.

TUPPER.

Take her hand in yours, and go through life and death together, till death seem life for the joy of being united for ever.

From Mr. Isaacs.

Ah! if you knew what peace there was in an accepted sorrow.

MADAME GUYON.

your sleeping saints, your own, Whom God has gathered in His heart in peace.

Washed Ashore: B. M.